Re: Help with Zip Drive and the IIgs

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <69s4j1$1rh$2@opal.southwind.net>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>It's a little hard to have a Mac formatted hard disk without a driver
>in its driver partition. As for devices from other boxes, PC Exchange,
>an "out of the box" OS component, can load drivers if they don't have one.

   So it claims. Too bad it didn't work for others the last time you
spouted this on csa2, and on a Mac I pulled out of the unused pile in
the back at work. [We're all PCs now for artists, programmers, mgmt,
and mgmt doesn't quite get the hang of the concept of selling
computers before they depreciate further] 

   Powermac 7500/100 (32MB ram, VM off), Sys 7.5.3R2.0. Plugged in an
external 270MB HD, recently reformatted on my Ramfast with NO Mac
driver partitions at all. Told PC Exchange to load drivers for scsi ID
#6, that drive (drive showed up fine in the list of SCSI IDs). Didn't
show up on desktop.  Rebooted. No change-- IT DIDN'T WORK. Played
around with conflict catcher to set only it, Memory & PC Exchange
control panels on. Rebooted. Nope. PC 3.5" disk inserted and accessed
to prove that PC Exchange was more compatible with PCs than Apple IIs.

   So if it can "load drivers" as it claims to be doing, it sure as
hell isn't helping make a mac read disks formatted on other
systems. Once again, the idiotic required drivers are getting in the
way-- making the drivers *optional* is the way it should have been
done in the first place, or fixed at the OS level to have a generic
driver for everything at any of the MacOS revisions released since
every Mac was sold with a HD.

>I have a great idea. Why don't you just shut the HELL up about what Macs 
>can and can't do until you try using one?

   Been there, done that, still telling the truth about them you'd
rather people not hear. I've used Macs enough times to get a big
dislike of them, and I know what they do out of the box. It appears
that you should take your own advice and shut the hell up until you
learn what they really can do, not some wishful thinking.

   Once again, Randy, your blind worship of the fruity logo is causing
you to act as if you sacrificed half your IQ on the altar of the Mac.
Tell the truth one of these years about them, ok? It'd be a nice
change.

Nathan Mates
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